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Noel serves Application Development & Program Delivery Professionals. He primarily covers database management systems (DBMSes), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), data replication and integration, data security, data management tools, and related online transaction processing issues. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends of DBMS, IaaS, data security, enterprise data grids, outsourcing, information life-cycle management, open source databases, and other emerging database technologies.
Noel has more than 20 years of experience in IT and has held various technical and management positions. He came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, Noel spent several years at Exodus Communications and led a group responsible for planning and implementing mission-critical enterprise applications. Prior to Exodus, he served as a principal consultant, benchmark specialist, and data architect for Amdahl. He has worked on several large, terabyte-sized database applications and deployed high-availability and high-scalability solutions for various enterprises. He has vast experience in implementing and supporting leading DBMSes and data management products.
Noel has spoken at numerous industry conferences around the globe and is quoted frequently in industry publications, such as CNET News, Computerworld, eWeek, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Forbes, Search.com, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He has taught several technical and management programs on grid computing, data management, security, scalability, consolidation, and information fabric.
Noel holds a Bachelor's Degree in business and a postgraduate degree in business administration. Noel is the author of an Oracle book and is currently working on another book on data security.
This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers; current database security challenges; why nonproduction environments such as test, development, Q&A, and staging are equally...

Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates
Enterprise databases continue to experience growing attacks despite enhanced security processes and increasing database security approaches. Security gaps in solutions persist in intelligent...
This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers, current database security challenges, why enterprises should focus on an enterprisewide database security strategy, the three pillars...
IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind
In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...
Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value
The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...
Planning Helps Improve Security And Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Hackers continue to break into critical databases across the globe, largely because of gaps in database security implementations and lack of cohesive controls. Although enterprises can pass...
Data Masking Can Help Protect Test Data
Using customer, employee, or other confidential data straight from production for testing or developing applications violates data privacy laws and regulations and makes that data a soft target for...
Stronger Measures Have Become Essential To Defend Against Growing Attacks
With increasingly sophisticated attacks and rising internal data theft, database security merits a stronger focus that goes beyond traditional authentication, authorization, and access control (AAA)....

This presentation discusses data security trends and drivers; current data security challenges; why data masking is critical; data masking approaches; selection criteria for data masking...
DBMS Security Technology Continues To Evolve, With Independent Vendors Filling Gaps
Attacks on enterprise databases continue at an all-time high despite security professionals taking measures to protect them. Although database management system (DBMS) security continues to improve,...
Tightly coupling data sources with applications has been a common approach for applications that need to access enterprise data, but with increasing data volume and data complexity along with the...
The Promise Of Improved Security Or The Risk Of New Attack Vectors
Next-generation information architectures such as data federation and information services are gaining increased adoption, so security professionals must ensure their protection from all relevant...
As enterprises take stronger measures around database security to meet compliance requirements and defend against attacks, the need for security support and administration becomes critical. But who...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Microsoft's SQL Server native auditing solution is basic, but it's free. It offers a good level of support for monitoring user and DBA activity, but lags in policy management, reporting, monitoring...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Oracle is a Strong Performer across the board in our evaluation, and tops the native DBMS auditing solutions. Oracle is the technology leader when it comes to databases, and Oracle gives database...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Tizor Systems is a Leader in the enterprise database auditing and real-time protection market because it provides strong support for alerting, audit and compliance reporting, performance, policy...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM DB2 Audit Management Expert (AME) currently supports only the mainframe environment, with support for other platforms planned for the future. Overall, AME offers basic support for reporting,...
Guardium And Imperva Lead; Tizor, Application Security, And Lumigent Follow Closely; Oracle Tops Native Auditing
Forrester's evaluation of leading enterprise database auditing and real-time protection vendors across 116 criteria found Guardium and Imperva to have established leadership positions thanks to their...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM DB2 native auditing provides basic-level auditing at no additional product cost. Although DB2 native auditing offers some level of support for auditing users and DBA activity as well as database...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Application Security surprised us by taking a Leader's position in database auditing and real-time protection because it also offers other database security solutions like encryption, vulnerability...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Lumigent's Leader position was no surprise given that it offers a comprehensive audit solution that meets a broad range of customers' requirements. Lumigent is one of the few vendors we evaluated...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Although Symantec Database Security (SDS) is a late arrival to the database security game, it has done extremely well to gain a spot in the Strong Performer's category within a year after its general...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Imperva is a Leader with a strong performing and scalable auditing solution that scored high in most areas that we evaluated. Imperva has strong support for audit and compliance reporting, end-to-end...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Guardium is a Leader across the board in our evaluation of enterprise database auditing and real-time protection, a result of the broad range of features and functionality built into the product and...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM acquired the privately-held company Consul Risk Management in December 2006. With this acquisition, IBM got a database auditing tool called Consul InSight, recently rebranded Tivoli Compliance...